By: RBurnett

RBurnett — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 04:09:16 +0000

As usual, Dilorenzo is having his opinion–but as Daniel Patrick Moynihan, late U S Senator from New York, said, you can have the right to your own opinion, but not the right to your own facts.
The only way to answer this piece by Dilorenzo is to refer the viewer/reader to the debate between Dilorenzo and Harry Jaffa that was conducted by the Independent Institute some years ago and is still available on their website.
Then let the reader/viewer decide who is the true Liberty hero–Jaffa or Dilorenzo.
Liberty Maven has made its choice, although I am aware that Jaffa’s position is not well known at Liberty Maven–Jake, the Champion of the Constitution, doesn’t know of Jaffa at all, as an example–which is strange as Dilorenzo attacks him in both of his Lincoln books.
But I am also so informed that many Liberty Maven readers use Dilorenzo and Ron Paul as their primary sources regarding Jaffa and his teacher, Leo Strauss, which too is strange as are not libertarians supposed to look not at the commentators but at the sources themselves? However, one reader told me that he trusted Ron Paul’s opinions and needed to go no further than that–an amazing use of an authority, which use is against one of the core principles of libertarianism, that of the ability to read the source material and make an independent and sovereign judgement–to not trust a commentator, to verify the trust–indeed, in the case of Representative Ron Paul, a career politician?
But I am writing to a set of stones—

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By: RBurnett